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Thoughtful observers concur that the planetary turmoil we have now face - weather change; types extinction; the destruction of whole ecosystems; the urgent need for a more just economic-political order - is moving individuals civilization to a radical making point: change or perish. But precisely how to improve remains an open up question. In Earth-honoring Trust, Larry Rasmussen right answers that question with a drastically new way of thinking about human modern culture, ethics, and the ongoing health of our world. Rejecting the present day assumption that morality applies to human society exclusively, Rasmussen insists that people must derive a spiritual and ecological ethic that accounts for the well-being of all creation, as well as the primal elements after which this will depend: earth, air, fire, normal water, and sun rays. He argues that good science, necessary as it is, will never be enough to motivate fundamental change. We must draw on religious resources as well to make the difficult change from an industrial-technological age group obsessed with usage to the ecological age group that restores smart stewardship of all life. Earth-honoring Trust advocates an alliance of spirituality and ecology, in which the materials requirements for planetary life are reconciled with deep practices of spirituality across religions, practices including mysticism, sacramentalism, prophetic tactics, asceticism, and the cultivation of knowledge. It is these shared spiritual tactics that can create a chorus of world faiths to counter the consumerism, utilitarianism, alienation, oppression, and folly which have pushed us to the brink. Written with passionate commitment and deep insight, Earth-honoring Trust reminds us that people must are in the present with the data that the sight of future generations will look back at us.
